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Acknowledgements customarily contain an expression of thanks, often perfunctory, to the author’s spouse. In this instance, however, my gratitude to Pearl runs especially deep. The campaign described in this book has generated vehement, public denunciations; expressions of agreement, on the other hand, though numerous and laudatory, have generally remained in the private sphere. While I effectively asked for these tribulations, Pearl, who did not, has had to live with them. Despite moments of deep ambivalence, she has extended much-needed support, and her agreement that I had to write this book notwithstanding the inevitable turmoil that it will reintroduce into our lives has provided me with indispensable encouragement and some measure of peace of mind. In addition, she read the manuscript with characteristic perceptiveness and made a suggestion that greatly improved its structure and readability. The remainder of my debt to her cannot be captured in words.

Professor Mark Steiner’s contribution also extends well beyond his reading of the manuscript. Years before this affair began we studied sections of the Talmud together, including parts of the especially relevant tractate Avodah zarah. To see a difficulty in a rabbinic text yield to the onslaught of Mark’s brilliant and tenacious intellect is to experience the millennial Jewish engagement with Torah at its highest level. As my concern with the issues addressed in this book grew, Mark regularly sent me material from Jerusalem and provided moral and intellectual support. Finally, he read the manuscript and made two important suggestions that led me to introduce a structural change and to add a substantive argument. Needless to say—and here I see no way to avoid the stock formula—ultimate responsibility for the content is mine alone.

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